Commercial loaders taking most of the componets?

[Andy Griffith]

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a feller...

He stated that the increase in "commercial" reloaders was to blame for the decrease in reloading supplies.

I'm not certain that I believe him, but I guess any little bit at this point might be adding to the strain.

I just figure it's more folks getting involved in reloading period- I don't have a opinion on it.

However, I will say that several commercial loaders have popped up that I know of in a several hundred mile radius- It's not just Georgia Arms anymore.

I would hope that these fellers will sell components, like a few of them do, but I don't think that every one of them does.

I understand they are filling a niche right now (if they can get components) but I figure when things slow down, pricing "to the bottom" will be back in effect by the big manufacturers to gain back market share.

Anyone remember $4.99 retail ball 9mm ammo about five years ago?

 

[Aticus]

To answer the question in your title: no.

 

[djh1765]

It is not the commercial RE-LOADERS that are take all the components. It is the commercial ammo manufacturers that are loading their own ammo leaving little for the re-loading market.

See if you can find ammo or components. They are selling it as fast as they can make all due to Obama and his henchman the Democrats.

 

[fredj338]

I doubt it. There are only a handgul of newr commercial reloaders but 1000s of hobby reloaders. It really is supply & demand. No one wnats to get caught short again so when stuff becomes available, most are buying larger amounts. I never buy less than 5K primers or 1K bullets, never.

 

[blujax01]

It's regional. Here in Ohio, components are not as available as they were pre-panic, but they're getting there.

And if one is patient, sometimes stuff actually goes on sale!

 

[MichiganScott]

If commercial reloaders were taking most of the components, then the market would be flooded with commercial reloads. It isn't. Fredj338 is probably correct.

 

[Harrison]

When you have non-military government agencies buying small arms ammo by the tens of millions of rounds, and other agencies like Dept. of education buying ammo in the multi-hundreds of thousands of rounds, it all adds up to a lot of components going into loaded ammo. In the past week a small group of coast guard people had shot up many large wooden cases of 40 S&W, 5.56, and 7.62 ammo on our small police range, and they do this every month. Less than a dozen coast guardsmen burn up more ammo in a half day at the range than my infantry company did during annual qualification, and do it with less adult supervision. It's like the have a quota of ammo they have to burn up.